*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2004). Does
class size in first grade relate to changes in child academic and social
performance or observed classroom processes? Developmental Psychology,
40(5), 651-664.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2004) Trajectories
of physical aggression from toddlerhood to middle childhood: Predictors,
correlates and outcomes. Monograph of the Society for Research in
Child Development. Serial Number 278, Vol. 69, No. 4.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2004). Type
of child care and children’s development at 54 months. Early
Childhood Research Quarterly,19(2) 203-230

Vandell, D. L. (2004). Early child care: The known
and the unknown. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 50(3), 387-414.

**Committee on Family and Work Policies (2003). Working
families and growing kids: Caring for children and adolescents. Washington,
D.C.: The National Academies Press

Johnson, D. J., Jaeger, E., Randolph, S. M., Cauce,
A. M., Ward, J., & The NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2003).
Studying the effects of early child care experiences on the development
of children of color in the United States: Toward a more inclusive research
agenda. Child Development, 74(5), 1227-1244.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2003). Child
care and common communicable illnesses in children aged 37 to 54 months.
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 157(2), 196-200.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2003). Child
care in the world – Past and present: Does amount of time spent
in child care predict socioemotional adjustment during the transition
to kindergarten? The Journal of the Japan Society for Child Health,
62(4), 418-431.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2003). Do
children’s attention processes mediate the link between family predictors
and school readiness? Developmental Psychology, 39(3), 581-593.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2003). Does
amount of time spent in child care predict socioemotional adjustment during
the transition to kindergarten? Child Development, 74, 976-1005.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (2003). The
NICHD Study of Early Child Care: Contexts of development and developmental
outcomes over the first seven years of life. In J. Brooks-Gunn & L.
J. Berlin (Eds), Early childhood development in the 21st century
(pp. 182-201). New York: Teachers College Press.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2003). Social
functioning in first grade: Associations with earlier home and child care
predictors and with current classroom experiences. Child Development,
74(6), 1639-1662.

Vandell, D. L. (2003) Playing by the rules: The 21st
Century Community Learning Center Evaluation violates established research
standards. The Evaluation Exchange, Spring issue.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (2002). Early
child care and children’s development prior to school entry: Results
from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care. American Educational Research
Journal, 39(1), 133-164.

*NICHD Study of Early Child Care Research Network (2002).
Parenting and family influences when children are in child care. In J.
G. Borkowski, S. Ramey, & M. Bristol-Power (Eds.), Parenting and
the child’s world: Influences on academic, intellectual, and social-emotional
development (pp. 99-123). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2002). The
interaction of child care and family risk in relation to child development
at 24 and 36 months. Applied Developmental Science, 6(3), 144-156.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (2002). The
relation of global first grade classroom environment to structural classroom
features and teacher, and student behaviors. The Elementary School
Journal, 102(5), 367-387.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2001). Before
Head Start: Income and ethnicity, family characteristics, child care experiences,
and child development. Early Education and Development, 12(4),
545-576.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (2001). Child
care and common communicable illnesses: Results from the National Institute
of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care. Archives
of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 155(4), 481-488.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (2001). Child
care and family predictors of preschool attachment and stability from
infancy. Developmental Psychology, 37(6), 847-862.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2001). Nonmaternal
care and family factors in early development: An overview of the NICHD
Study of Early Child Care. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology,
22, 457-492.

Vandell, D., & Wolfe, B. (2000). Child care
quality: Does it matter and does it need to be improved? Commissioned
Report to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. Also available
as (Special Report 78). University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research
on Poverty, http://www.wcer.edu/childcare/statements.html.

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(1999). Self-discrepancy, negative life events, and social support in
relation to dejection in mothers of infants. Journal of Social and
Clinical Psychology, 18(4), 490-501.

*NICHD Early Child Care Research Network. (1996, Spring).
Child care and the family: An opportunity to study development in context.
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Development, pp. 4-7.

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of privacy/confidentiality. In J. Sieber (Ed.), The protection of
human subjects in behavioral and social science research (pp. 89-94).
Baltimore, MD: University Press.

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friendships during the first two years. In H. C. Foot, A. J. Chapman,
& J. R. Smith (Eds.) Friendship and social relations in children
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*Deborah Vandell is a member
of the NICHD Early Child Care Research Network and a contributing author
to the designated papers. The Network is presenting all research pertaining
to its core hypotheses under the corporate banner, rather than individually
named authors, in recognition of the collaborative nature of the study.

**Deborah Vandell served on the Committee on Family
and Work Policies that authored the report.